This study describes the collection of Gustav Meyrink’s correspondence, autographs and printed editions in the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, with reference to other important Meyrink collections. The book offers brief introductions to various contexts and themes relevant to an understanding of this German author of fantastical and esoteric literature as well as a bibliographical description of the collection.
Dr. Theodor Harmsen, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Amsterdam, is Head of the Ritman Institute. His publications include Antiquarianism in the Augustan Age: Thomas Hearne 1678-1735, Oxford 2000, and 'Drink from this fountain'. Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, inspired humanist and dedicated editor, Amsterdam, 2004.
The volume is of interest to students and teachers of modern Austrian and German literature, cultural history and twentieth-century occultism.